Department Events
Upcoming Events
2025-2026 Lecture Series
February 2 Jim Clifford, Univ. of Saskatchewan
Cleaner Data from Joseph Banks' Archives: Benchmarking a Decade of Text Mining Historical Sources
February 9 Alexander Rosenberg, Duke Univ.
Blunt Instrument: Why Economic Theory Can't Get Any Better, Why We Need It Anyway
February 23 Andres Santos, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
One Instrument, Many Treatments: Instrumental Variables Identification of Multiple Causal Effects
March 16 Anna Marie Kenney, Univ. of California, Irvine
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March 30 Fabian Offert, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
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April 13 Daniel Greco, Yale Univ.
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April 20 Lorenzo Magnolfi, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
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April 27 Elijah Watson, Northwestern Univ.
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September 26 Alejandro Sanchez, Assistant Professor
Bounds for Within-Household Encouragement Designs with Interference
October 31 Abhi Ananth, Assistant Professor
External Validity Under Network Interference
November 21 Nathan Gabriel, Visiting Assistant Professor
The Formation of Identity Signals in Diverse Societies
February 6 Lauren Klein, Professor
When Theory Leads: Towards a Humanities-Forward Model of Computational Research
February 27 Steph Buongiorno, Post-Doctoral Researcher
Making Dissent Intelligible in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
March 20 David Hirshberg, Assistant Professor
Inference Based on Imagined Randomization
April 17 Jo Guldi, Professor
The Dates that Dominate Wikipedia's Telling of Global History
September 8 Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Univ. of South Australia
When Will AI Win a Pulitzer Prize for History?
September 14 Samuel Kou, Harvard Univ.
Catalytic Prior Distributions for Bayesian Inference
September 29 Roberto Molinari, Auburn Univ.
A Rashomon Algorithm for Sparse Model Sets
October 6 Victor Chernozhukov, MIT
Adventures in Demand Analysis Using AI
October 20 Jaap Saers, Emory Univ.
From Fossils to Function: Combining Deep Learning and Morphometrics to Unravel the Evolution of Human Locomotion
October 27 Peter Leonard, Stanford Univ.
Fine-tuning the Future: Embeddings and Digital Research Collections
November 3 Eric Auerbach, Northwestern Univ.
Uniform Confidence Bands for Network Structure
November 10 Elliott Sober, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Darwin's Reasoning About Common Ancestry
November 17 Anru Zhang, Duke Univ.
Recent Advances in Generative Modeling and Synthetic Biomedical Data
December 8 Jake Nebel, Princeton Univ.
Welfare Reflections: On Duality Conditions for Social Welfare Evaluation
December 15 Christopher Dancy & Meera Ray, Penn State Univ.
A Framework for the Human in Human-AI Interaction